Non-Specialist Tools for Specialist Content
Instructional design has recently focused mostly on collaborative and co-operative processes. The development of quality content has been taking a back seat. At the same time, Open Source tools for content creation have been developed to professional standards. Today impressive possiblities of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) in rapid content development exist. The eLearning specialist at common sense - eLearning & training consultants in Vienna support client teams in the implementation and instructional use of FOSS tools worldwide. On the CD compilation Free and Open Source Toolkit of common sense elearning authors find all necessary tools for content production.
common sense Free and Open Source Toolkit CD-Rom(firmenpresse) - Vienna, June 2009 - Content production was often out-sourced to instructional design and eLearning professionals, who knew the "secret ingredients" and had access to professional tools for authoring and production. After a few production cycles, educational institutions and training units realised that the "real" costs of eLearning were coming with content creation and support, not with the learning management systems and hardware.
Today, content creation has become much more affordable and technically manageable than ever before: Free and Open Source Tools (FOSS) allow institutions to develop content when and where needed, with their own in-house resources. This content usually matches local and regional demands much better than rack content or only marginally adapted content.
To give a concrete example: The Tanzania Training Centre for Orthopaedic Technologies (TATCOT), the most important regional training centre for orthopaedic technicians in East Africa, is now offering eLearning programs to participants throughout the region. The eLearning project, supported by InWEnt, Capacity Building International and funded by the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development, assists TATCOT through the use of Free and Open Source software for content development and delivery.
The specialists from common sense trained a team of subjectmatter experts in the use of the "Open Source Toolkit". The Toolkit is built around the Open Source authoring tool eXeLearning and provides additional software tools (AV, graphics editing, animations, Moodle, PDF tools, etc.).
After only a few weeks of technical and instructional training, the local experts were able to develop 500+ learning hours for the blended learning "Spinal Orthotics course program". The modules double as digital textbooks for face-to-face training. Since the content has been designed by local experts, it fully matches the institutional curriculum requirements and needs of the target group and takes regional cultural and technical requirements into account.
This proves that locally generated content, combined with a properly matched eLearning strategy, instructional design
guidelines, a good online support structure, ommunication and collaboration, contributes greatly to successful eLearning practice.
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common sense offers monitoring of eLearning projects, media-based knowledge transfer and media production since 1999. common sense suppports eLearning projects like a "midwife". At the end of our consultancy and training, your team will have all competencies to develop eLearning content and implement eLearning measures independently and sustainably. common sense references are focused on Open source (FOSS) projects and international learners.
common sense – eLearning & training consultants GmbH
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common sense – eLearning & training consultants GmbH
Riesgasse 5/14
1030 Vienna
Tel.: +43-1-913 66 76
office(at)common-sense.at
www.common-sense.at
Datum: 30.06.2009 - 12:04 Uhr
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Date of sending: 30.06.2009
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